U.S. immigration lawyers serving individual and corporate clients in the...
USCIS has released a schedule of the inventory of pending employment-based Form I-485, Application to Adjust Status. The statistics are very recent – as of January 5, 2011 – and are very helpful to...
View ArticleU.S. immigration lawyers serving individual and corporate clients in the...
The Department of State (“DOS”), in an “urgent” alert dated as of September 15, 2011, has advised that due to heavy demand in the employment-based immigrant visa categories, DOS has reached the Fiscal...
View ArticleU.S. immigration lawyers serving individual and corporate clients in the...
In a memorandum dated August 9, 2013, USCIS has released guidance and clarifications pertaining to the options and timelines for Diversity Visa (DV) selectees who choose to process their green card...
View ArticleU.S. immigration lawyers serving individual and corporate clients in the...
In an important (and surely welcome by many) announcement, the National Visa Center (NVC) has announced that as of November 12, 2014, they would no longer start requiring and collecting original civil...
View ArticleNational Visa Center No Longer Requires Original Civil Documents
In an important (and surely welcome by many) announcement, the National Visa Center (NVC) has announced that as of November 12, 2014, they would no longer start requiring and collecting original civil...
View ArticleDecember 2015 Visa Bulletin – Filing Cutoff Dates Remain Unchanged; Very...
The U.S. State Department has just released the December 2015 Visa Bulletin which is the third Visa Bulletin for the new FY2016 fiscal year. The major headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is...
View ArticleFebruary 2016 Visa Bulletin – Filing Cutoff Dates Remain Largely Unchanged;...
The U.S. State Department has just released the February 2016 Visa Bulletin which is the fifth Visa Bulletin for the FY2016 fiscal year. The major headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the...
View ArticleUSCIS Issues a Multitude of RFEs on Pending I-485 Applications
Many of our clients and readers are already aware of the move by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (“USCIS”) to issue what are hundreds, or perhaps even thousands, of very similar, if not...
View ArticleAppeals Court Creates Right of I-140 Revocation Notice to New AC21 Sponsor...
In an August 3, 2016 opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that in situations where beneficiaries of I-140 petition have ported their I-485 adjustment of status application to...
View ArticleEmployment-based I-485 Adjustment of Status Inventory
USCIS has released a schedule of the inventory of pending employment-based Form I-485, Application to Adjust Status. The statistics are very recent – as of January 5, 2011 – and are very helpful to...
View ArticleFY2011 Employment-Based Visas Limit Reached: No New Green Card Approvals...
The Department of State (“DOS”), in an “urgent” alert dated as of September 15, 2011, has advised that due to heavy demand in the employment-based immigrant visa categories, DOS has reached the Fiscal...
View ArticleUSCIS Clarifies Eligibility and Timelines for Filing I-485 for Diversity Visa...
In a memorandum dated August 9, 2013, USCIS has released guidance and clarifications pertaining to the options and timelines for Diversity Visa (DV) selectees who choose to process their green card...
View ArticleNational Visa Center No Longer Requires Original Civil Documents
In an important (and surely welcome by many) announcement, the National Visa Center (NVC) has announced that as of November 12, 2014, they would no longer start requiring and collecting original civil...
View ArticleDecember 2015 Visa Bulletin – Filing Cutoff Dates Remain Unchanged; Very...
The U.S. State Department has just released the December 2015 Visa Bulletin which is the third Visa Bulletin for the new FY2016 fiscal year. The major headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is...
View ArticleFebruary 2016 Visa Bulletin – Filing Cutoff Dates Remain Largely Unchanged;...
The U.S. State Department has just released the February 2016 Visa Bulletin which is the fifth Visa Bulletin for the FY2016 fiscal year. The major headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the...
View ArticleUSCIS Issues a Multitude of RFEs on Pending I-485 Applications
Many of our clients and readers are already aware of the move by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (“USCIS”) to issue what are hundreds, or perhaps even thousands, of very similar, if not...
View ArticleAppeals Court Creates Right of I-140 Revocation Notice to New AC21 Sponsor...
In an August 3, 2016 opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that in situations where beneficiaries of I-140 petition have ported their I-485 adjustment of status application to...
View ArticleAugust 2017 Visa Bulletin – EB-2 ROW Cutoff Date Introduced
The U.S. State Department has just released the August 2017 Visa Bulletin which is the eleventh Visa Bulletin for the FY2017 fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the...
View ArticlePending I-131 Advance Parole Applications Being Denied Due to International...
Our office has recently learned that USCIS is changing their long-standing practice and have started denying Form I-131 Advance Parole applications due to abandonment in cases where the applicant has...
View ArticleNew USCIS Policy Creates I-140 Revocation Notice Rights to AC21 Porting...
In a November 11, 2017 Policy Memorandum, USCIS has formally adopted a recent AAO decision in Matter of V-S-G Inc. and has provided guidance on its impact on AC21 beneficiaries where the underlying...
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